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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(b) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.
(c) As a warning of death.
(d) As a baby in a cradle.

2. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?
(a) Sunflower.
(b) Childhood home.
(c) Thatched cottage.
(d) Corn stalk.

3. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Overall structure.
(b) The isolated poetic image.
(c) Verse.
(d) Emotion.

4. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.
(b) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.
(c) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(d) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.

5. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A flourishing nest.
(b) A soul at peace.
(c) A poem.
(d) A child's drawing.

6. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Poetic irony.
(c) Desire to move to a new house.
(d) Objective irony.

7. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When it is vacant.
(b) When it is assailed by elements of nature.
(c) When a new family moves in.
(d) When it is immortalized by a poet.

8. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?
(a) Rules of household order.
(b) Rules of grammar.
(c) Rules of the marketplace.
(d) Rules of logic.

9. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Pasternak.
(b) Vlaminck.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Pare.

10. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?
(a) A chrysalis for new life.
(b) The security of surrounding our inner self at death and burial.
(c) A barrier against evil.
(d) A finality to mourning.

11. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?
(a) The architect.
(b) The poet.
(c) The scientist.
(d) The psychoanalyst.

12. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?
(a) Relax at home.
(b) Establish a metaphysics of the imagination.
(c) Understand causality.
(d) Study psychoanalysis.

13. What is another word for ontology?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Beingness.
(d) Causality.

14. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) New memories.
(b) Poetic descriptions of the night.
(c) Poetic daydreams.
(d) New resolutions to nightmares.

15. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?
(a) The personality of the artist.
(b) Mental stability.
(c) Isolated poetic images.
(d) Market value of art.

Short Answer Questions

1. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?

2. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?

3. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?

4. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?

5. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?

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